The Stamp Act of 1765 was passed by parliament of Great Britain. It was an attempt by Grenville to uphold government power over the colonies. The materials that were printed involved legitimate documents, magazines, newspaper, and plenty of alternative kinds of paper used over all the colonies. Like today's taxes, the stamp tax had to be remunerate in rational British currency, not in colonial paper money.
The reason of the tax was to support and pay troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War. The Americans said there was no military need for the soldiers because there were no foreign enemies on the continent, and the Americans had always protected themselves against Native Americans. They suggested it was rather a matter of British patronage to surplus British officers and career soldiers who should be paid by London.…show more content… The stamps had to be bought with the hard currency, which was scarce, rather than the more plentiful colonial paper currency. To keep away from draining currency out of the colonies the revenues were to be expended in America, especially for supplies and salaries of British Army units who were stationed there.
Two features of the Stamp Act involving the courts attracted special attention. The tax on court documents specifically included courts "exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction." These types of courts did not currently exist in the colonies and no bishops, who would preside over the courts, were currently assigned to the
